Jan 19, 2010
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In this episode, R. Trent Codd, III, Ed.S., LPC, ACT interviews Dr. Judith Beck about:
JUDITH S. BECK, PhD BIOGRAPHY
Judith
S. Beck, Ph.D., is a world expert in Cognitive Behavior Therapy
(CBT) and
author of the basic text in the field, Cognitive
Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond,
which has been translated into 20 languages. She is president of
the non-profit, Beck
Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy in
Philadelphia, which she co-founded with her
father, Aaron
T. Beck, M.D.,
in 1994. The Beck Institute is renowned nationally and
internationally as perhaps the premier training facility in
Cognitive Behavior Therapy for health and mental health
professionals and educators.
Dr.
Beck is also Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the
University of Pennsylvania. She travels extensively, nationally and
internationally, to present on various applications of CBT. She has
nearly 100 publications to her name, including professional books
(Cognitive
Therapy for Challenging Problems,
the Oxford
Textbook of Psychotherapy and Cognitive
Therapy for Personality Disorders)
and books for consumers (The
Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin
Person and
workbook, and The
Complete Beck Diet for Life).
Dr. Beck currently divides her time among teaching and supervision, administration, clinical work, program development, research and writing. She is a founding fellow and past president of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, a non-profit organization that certifies mental health professionals in cognitive therapy, and has been a consultant for several NIMH research studies.